Adobe Houses for Today

Name: Adobe Houses for Today
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ISBN: 9780865346628

Flexible Plans for Your Adobe Home

Laura Sanchez, Alex Sanchez

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English

Sunstone Press
13 December 2016

Home renovation & extension

Since Adobe Houses for Today first appeared, interest in energy efficiency has exploded. Showing the pathway to smaller, solar tempered, easy-to-heat homes using adobe, one of the world's most energy efficient building materials, makes this book about adobe houses not only for today, but also for tomorrow. The book features 12 plans for compact, beautifully proportioned adobe homes in modern and traditional styles. The richly illustrated text shows how the basic houses, designed for today's smaller families, can be expanded and adapted to fit readers' own budgets, family sizes, style preferences, and building sites. After a brief look at adobe's history, Adobe Houses for Today surveys adobe's advantages as a building material, illustrates adobe construction, and gives an eye-opening tour through the facts and fantasies of energy conservation. The heart of the book details the plans, using them as examples of design techniques that increase livability and control costs in any house. The book and its minimal-cost construction drawings are valuable, enjoyable tools for those buying, building, or remodeling a house. With this new edition, which includes an additional chapter with stories from people who have built the houses, construction drawings are now available for some of the expanded versions.

By: Laura Sanchez, Alex Sanchez
Imprint: Sunstone Press
Edition: Revised ed.
Dimensions: Height: 281mm, Width: 217mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 653g
ISBN: 9780865346628
ISBN 10: 0865346623
Pages: 230
Publication Date: 13 December 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Author and journalist Laura Sanchez previously ran a drafting business specializing in adobe houses. She called it quits sometime after the 250th set of plans but maintains an abiding interest in designing the very best, most cost-effective houses possible. Alex Sanchez, who grew up building houses, has taught courses in adobe construction and solar energy. He heads the renowned computer-aided drafting program at the University of New Mexico-Valencia Campus.

Reviews for Adobe Houses for Today: Flexible Plans for Your Adobe Home

"""...a wealth of information about the history and techniques associated with the use of adobe."" -Library Journal ""...a fascinating wealth of information and lore."" -The Bookwatch ""Helpful for anyone buying, building, or remodeling an adobe house as well as for contractors, drafters, and real estate brokers."" -Book News ""...argues by example that adobe construction need not be a costly luxury reserved only for the wealthy."" -Su Casa ""...at last, a book written by authors who understand solar and thermal mass!"" -Adobe Builder"